vulgar meaning and definition

VULGAR adjective

Definition of vulgar (adjective)

1. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
   • "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"
   • synonyms: coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth
2. of or associated with the great masses of people
   • "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses"
   • synonyms: common, plebeian, unwashed
3. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
   • "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"
   • synonyms: common, vernacular
4. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
   • "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"
   • synonyms: crude, earthy, gross